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Despite a ban on commercial whaling, whales are still hunted. A few countries still kill thousands of the animals each year and want to re-open the seas to full-scale commercial whaling. HSI is calling for a global whale sanctuary to end all whaling for commercial purposes forever.

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The three ships taking part in Japan’s North Pacific whale hunt returned Tuesday with the remains of 43 minke whales and 134 sei whales on board. Hunting whales for commercial purposes is banned by the International Whaling Commission’s ongoing moratorium in effect 1986, yet Japan continues to defy this ban by claiming its hunt is done for scientific research.

HSI/Europe applauded the European Parliament for adopting a strongly worded Resolution on whale hunting in Norway. MEPs raised concerns about the shipment of whale products to Japan via a number of EU ports during a debate with the European Commission in July.

As Japan’s whaling fleet docked today in Shimonoseki, Japan, on its return from its controversial ‘scientific whaling’ in the waters around Antarctica, Humane Society International and the Humane Society Legislative Fund called for an end to the cruelty of harpooning whales.

HSI applauded the adoption of Resolution 15 on Cetaceans and Ecosystem services at the International Whaling Commission, noting the increasing research that shows that whales positively enhance marine ecosystem productivity by recycling essential nutrients.

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